Mood: Blah
Listening to: Elvenking - Penny Dreadful

Ahem.

+ =

And hopefully he won't kill me for posting this.

Yeah. That's why I haven't drawn much. Boyfriends are distracting.

Mood: Blah
Listening to: Dream Evil - The Chosen ones

Expand your horizons. Reach beyond what the Radio and MTV tells you is cool. Trust me, there are bands out there that are 100 times better than Slipknot and Disturbed.

Here is a short list

In the Death Metal Category we have...

Dark Tranquility [link]
Opeth [link] (for a good starter album try Blackwater Park)
Katatonia [link]
Children of Bodom [link]
Borknagar [link]
Moonspell [link]

In the Power Metal Category we have...

Kamelot [link]
Blind Guardian [link]
Dream Evil [link]
Dragonforce [link]
Gamma Ray [link]
Lost Horizon [link]
Sonata Arctica [link]


And in the just plain fucked up category we have

Skyclad [link]
Finntroll [link]
Strapping Young Lad [link]

If you click on just TWO of those links, you are on the path to metal enlightenment, and I guarantee that you will BURN all of your Radio Friendly Mass Produced Mallcore Garbage.

If you don't... well then you just plain fail at life

Mood: Blah
Listening to: Avenged Sevenfold - Bat Country

Nothing turns me off to a piece of artwork more than when I see a REALLY REALLY nice piece, then click on it, and see nothing more than a "..." in the description.

Does your life just suck so fucking bad that you spend HOURS and HOURS on a piece of artwork and you can't muster the effort to come up with a SENTENCE OR TWO about the bloody thing?

I'm sorry, but if you can't bother to say something about your artwork, then why should I waste the effort to comment on it?

Just my rant of the day. It's something that annoys the shit out of me.

Mood: Blah
Listening to: Kamelot - Memento Mori

Don't get me wrong. Originality is a fine concept and I encourage it.

But what the fuck is with this "Originality Olympics" thing going on with Anthro art?

It seems to me like I am now, out of the loop because I have characters that are feline, and that apparently is "taboo" now since cats are common critters in the furryverse.

You know why most of my characters are cats? Here's why. BECAUSE I REALLY REALLY FUCKING LIKE CATS! They're my favorite animal. EVER! I am 100% born and bred cat person. I mean I like dogs, and lizards, and goldfish and racoons. But damn it, cats are on a PEDESTAL here. They're the only animals that ever really spark my interest.

I also have cat characters, because cats are part of the story I've been worknig on since HIGH SCHOOL. There are 3 known races (so far) in it. Cats, Humans, and Halens. I might have a few other races I might introduce, but cats are one of the main 3. I have their subculture and mannerisms and characteristics down to the point where I could write a fucntional RPG out of it.

I think my whole point with all of this, is that I am working on consistancy here. It isn't that I don't like to draw other animals. It's just that with the limited time I have drawing these days, I need to focus on keeping what I have CONSISTANT!

As for my designs... Redrock is, and will always be a red abysynian housecat. Her hair may change, her clothes may change, and maybe her personality will change, but she is a character that would NEVER work as anything other than a red abysynian housecat. Ever. Same goes for Jessie James and Bruce and Kip and Roadie and everyone else. I'm not going to conform to the masses because people have problems with furries.

And I might add... I've been drawing cartoon animals LONG before I had the internet and found out that other people were also drawing cartoon animals and had a label for it. So kindly shut your pie holes.

Mood: Excited
Listening to: Queensryche - Eyes of a Stranger

So, for those of you with LJs, I started a new community.

[link]

It's an MP3 trading post for power metal.

I know there's a bunch of Blind Guardian and Kamelot and other great power metal act fans out there that watch my stuff, so you shall feel right at home.

You have to join to see the posts, but it is un-modded.

As for the art camp, I've got like, a pile of drawings I've yet to finish. I've just been inspirationally drained latley.